Finished projects #4 and #5 for 2024 were made from the same pattern and the same layer cake, with a variation in the colour layout, to create a 'twin' or 'sister' set of lap quilts for my cousin's two young grand-daughters.
Both quilts finished at 45"sq, and I used this Riley Blake layer cake 'A Little Sweetness' by Tasha Noel that has been waiting in my stash for just the right people to make quilts for - two sisters seemed ideal!
The quilts were made with the 'No Place Like Home' pattern by Sue Pfau (aka Sweet Jane) in her book 'Quilts from Sweet Jane' (one of my favourite pattern books for using precuts, I think I've made nearly every pattern in it!)
With the two little girls relocating with their parents from NZ to Australia this month (we will miss them so much, but at least they are only 'over the ditch'), I thought the pattern name was very apt.
I also liked the block design and could easily see how to switch it around to make two variations of the same design.
For Florence's quilt, 'No Place Like Home', I used the pattern as laid out in the book:
For the quilting I used Heidi (my Bernina Q20 longarm), and did a meandering loopy daisy chain:
This quilt has a backing of mostly aqua polka dots, with a strip of pink polka dots:
You know I LOVE a stripy or spotty binding!
For her big sister Lucia's quilt, 'Home is Where the Heart Is', I swapped the placement of the white sashing:
I quilted it on the longarm, this time using a loopy string of hearts design:
And the backing on this one is mostly pink polka dots, with a strip of the aqua polka dots:
The quilts were gifted last weekend, and winged their way to Queensland with the girls and their mum during the week.
Here's how they looked while waiting to be taken to their new owners...
Kia ora to all my quilting and crafting friends at Kelly's Needle and Thread Thursday linky party!
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